La sombra de Frazer

Las nociones de verdad y tabú en la reflexión antropológica freudiana

Abstract

This work explores the uneasy relations between anthropology and Freud's psychoanalysis, taking as a point of departure a reflection on the chief thesis of Tótem and taboo, the conceptual unresolved tensions that evolve from Freud's assumptions on the origin of culture and on certain enigmatic formulas of evolution theory. This reflection lays an stress on the challenges of an undeveloped conception of the preservation of the experience and its role in the shaping of the species, on the uncertainty on the psychoanalytic conception of guilt, on the role of the allegory of the father's murder in the reflection of the nature of the law and the norm, and on the fate of the notion of evolution in the social sciences.